Malcolm McLaren teams up with Creative Time to showcase art and pornography where it belongs – in the heart of NYC, in Times Square. McLaren’s video art showpiece, Shallow, is airing from June 25 to mid-August on 44 ½, MTV’s giant outdoor, gilded HD screen between 44th and 45th Streets.
“I’ve cut up pieces of old stag movies, slowed them way down, and set them to music,” says McLaren. “What you see is not people having sex but people about to have it. The old movies had a lot more foreplay. I was interested in the body language of nonactors, how they communicated their longing.”
The 21 “artful” films are interactive too by calling a specific number to hear the musical mashups commissioned for the pieces. “Love Will Tear Us Apart” meets “Love Will Keep Us Together”. Show schedules and MP3s are here.
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